Welcome to Penrith EarlyLearningCentre

120 Woodriff St, Penrith / 7am-6pm Weekdays

Spaces Available – Enrolling Now

Healthly Meals Included

Your child’s health and well-being is so important to us that we serve healthy meals with organic nutrient dense ingredients; some of which are even from our very own little vegetable garden as long as our bunny doesn’t get to them first! We offer dance and drama to inspire over all well-being and children enjoy our huge outdoor play area as well as our cute bunny sanctuary.

Welcome

In a bright and fun filled homely environment with a massive outdoor play area our Educators love and care for your children. We are open all year* from 7am to 6pm and provide full time and occasional care for babies and children between the ages of 0 to 6 years. Penrith Early Learning Centre is Sun Smart, fully licensed and accredited with qualified Early Childhood Educators.

Education

Watch in joy as your baby and toddler’s language, social, physical and cognitive skills flourish – Teaching children during this exciting age of discovery is so rewarding especially seeing children develop socially in preparation for pre-school. Our discovery-based school readiness program offers opportunities for children to become confident learners and communicators, making choices about their learning whilst developing strong social skills. All our programs are individualized and interest based, with developmental evaluation. Our programs incorporate all Early Childhood educational aspects including science and foreign languages.

What makes us special?

Our Difference

Penrith Early Learning Centre is a sun smart, fully licensed and accredited centre with qualified early child childhood teachers.

We are open from 7am to 6pm all year round. We provide full time and occasional care for babies and children aged 0-6 years.

Healthy menu

Yoga classes

Dance and Drama

Vegetable gardens

Bunny sanctuary

Huge fun yard for active play

Competitively priced approved for child care benefit and rebate through the family assistance office.

Food & Meal Time

Only the best will do…

That’s why we serve foods made from nutrient dense natural ingredients,Organicis simply the best. We also have a water purification system to make sure we quench our thirst with healthy energised water.

Lara is a qualified Chef and currently the Sydney Chapter Leader for the Weston A Price Foundation. Her enthusiasm and great understanding of nutrition means really healthy nutrient dense foods for all the children at Penrith’s only organic childcare centre.

We Serve:

Breakfast, Morning Tea, Lunch, Afternoon Tea and Late Snacks.

Our menus include:

Organic fresh vegetables, and fruits

Grass fed and finished meats and organic poultry

Organic Milks, yoghurts, cheeses and/or alternatives

Organic cereals such as rice and pasta

We cater to Gluten free, Vegetarian, Paleo, GAPS and Dairy free diets

Water as a preferred drink. Learn more about our purifying water filtration system here

We also:

Only cook with mineral salts from France called “Salt of the Earth Celic Sea Salt and organic herbal salt called Herbamare from Switzerland

Limit added sugars and educate our families on the dangers of refined sugars We prepare our own home made healing broths, we make our own sauce and even grind our own butter chicken spices. We make our own fresh yoghourt too.

We respect all religious, cultural and family values and customs, including those related to food and eating. When a child has particular needs related to eating, for whatever reason, we discuss with the family the best way to offer food for the child. This may involve the family providing food from home, or agreeing on specific foods that can be included or avoided.

Yoga

Our program incorporates Dance and Drama as well as Yoga, and a variety of outdoor games to ensure children are offered all the benefits of exercise as part of Health our Wellness program.

Yoga for kids is so much more than relaxation and exercise. It is a way to engage children in active play. Children are engaged in body movement, strength building poses, and coordination enhancing exercises. Yoga also allows children to use their imaginations as they work out. For example cats can be any colour, volcanos can erupt confetti, and airplanes can fly to the neighborhood park. When presented in age-appropriate ways, children have fun with yoga, and truly see it as a way to play.

Children are born into a world of technology. This world provides an overload of cognitive stimulation, and has created an environment where children are less and less inclined to engage in physical activity. Keeping the body active is fundamental to healthy living. Children need time to play.

We are inspired by the teachings of Amira Gaynor who is the founder of Namaste Kid, we use Amira’s unique yoga programs that immersed children in a fun and creative yoga experience.

We understand that play in natural environments offers considerable benefits for children. Their experience increased health benefits, stronger concentration skills, and enhanced social interaction skills. They also develop an emotional bonding with the natural world, which will serve as a solid foundation for a lifelong environmental ethic. Playing in natural environments helps young children become grounded in a positive sense of self, not to mention developing an understanding and appreciation of the natural world. Our cute vegetable and bunny garden offers a lovely natural experience.

Language programs

Recent studies on brain development show that early exposure to more than one language actually builds a more powerful brain. It also strengthens a child’s mastery and understanding of his or her first language. In addition, research has found some surprising benefits to early foreign language exposure in children. Studies show that babies that were exposed to sounds of different languages early in life retained the ability to identify those sounds years later. This may make it easier for your child to learn other languages later in life.

Studies have shown that when children are adequately exposed to two languages at an early age, they are more flexible and creative. They also demonstrate improved overall school performance and superior problem-solving skills.

Many experts now believe that babies exposed to more than one language during their first year of life will not only have an easier time learning foreign languages later in life, but actually improve their listening, problem-solving, and reasoning skills in general.

By exposing children to language at an early age, they will have an easier time when they are required to learn language later in school.

Hear from some of our Happy Parents

Dear Lara,

I just wanted to drop a note to express my appreciation of your team.
The work your staff put into the centre, their commitment to their positions and the care given to the children is exceptional.
Over the past 18 months that Shaun has been in your centre he has excelled in every area of development and has improved so much from eating a variety of foods with varied tastes and flavours to social interactions with other kids including teachers. Observing Shaun’s development, Dale and I couldn’t be happier.

On another point I can’t help but admire the work you and your staff have done in the outdoor play areas! They are absolutely amaizing and it’s obvious from the children’s reactions that it’s a great success!

Thanks! Janelle

Did you know that the Child Care Rebate covers 50% of ‘out of pocket’ child care expenses? With these rebates the average family pays just $41 per day – some significantly less!

To find out how the Child Care Rebate will affect your fees just contact us and we’ll take care of the rest.

Get to know us better

Let's talk

At Penrith Early Learning Centre we are Early Childhood Teaching professionals dedicated to your child’s daycare and education. We know how children learn, interact and participate and record this so that parents and families can share in and contribute to their child’s ongoing development and learning journey, between us we speak five different languages.

Our teachings skills are friendly and fun, we build solid relationships with children and their families and we understand how important good communication is in kindy. The children love to engage with us and enjoy the wide variety of welcoming environments and activities we set up during the course of the each day at day care.

We understand that every child is individual so our care is flexible and arranged in consultation with you and your child’s Education Leader.

To ensure the well being and development of every child, our educator to child ratio is 1:4 for babies and 1:8 for children aged 2-5 years old – we provide the best of Day Care, Kindy, Preschool, all here at Penrith’s only organic childcare centre.

We provide a fun and friendly welcoming environment where children feel secure and free to explore the wonderful world around them

Our parents and carers take comfort in knowing that their children are happy, learning and growing in safe, joyful and nurturing homely child care environment.

Our long day care service provides Individualised programming and interest based learning, with developmental evaluation.

Penrith Early Learning Centre offers educational in house excursions, specialised language lessons and the school readiness program.

The Early Years Learning Framework is implemented across all that we do and our child care Centre is Sun Smart providing every child with sunscreen and a hat.

We are fully licensed and accredited as well as being a Child Care Rebate and Benefit approved service.

We also offer casual / occasional day care and we are conveniently located near the Centro Shopping centre Penrith.

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Our age groups

Caterpillar Room: 0 to 2 years

In a nurturing home like environment, babies are loved and shown lots of affection, while exploring an array of sensory play as they achieve their age appropriate milestones

Junior Butterflies: 2 to 3 years

Watch in joy as your child’s language, social, physical and cognitive skills flourish – Teaching children during this exciting age of discovery is so rewarding especially seeing children develop socially in preparation for pre-school.

Senior Butterflies: Pre-schoolers

Our discovery-based school readiness program offers opportunities for children to become confident learners and communicators, making choices about their learning whilst developing strong social skills. We welcome and encourage family input.

Contact Us & Book a Tour

Drop us a line or visit our centre at 120 Woodriff St, Penrith. We are always so proud to show off our centre and welcome parents and carers to experience the Penrith Early Learning Centre’s joyful difference. Fill in the form below to book your obligation free tour

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Did you know that the Child Care Rebate covers 50% of ‘out of pocket’ child care expenses? With these rebates the average family pays just $41 per day – some significantly less!

To find out how the Child Care Rebate will affect your fees just contact us and we’ll take care of the rest.

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Tour appointments will be confirmed by phone or email

My Family Lounge

Registering for My Family Lounge in 3 Simple Steps

Step 1

Families who have attended this service before and are NEW to My Family Lounge – Please contact the service to receive your unique Login.

For NEW families to our service who have NOT used My Family Lounge before, click on REGISTER to create your own My Family Lounge account.

For families who already have an EXISTING My Family Lounge account, skip the registration process and go to step 2

Step 2

Log into your MFL account and tell us about you, your child and what bookings you are after so we can help you out.

Step 3

If you have requested a permanent booking, we will come back to you and advise if we have a spot available for your child. If we have a spot, we will email you an Offer to accept. Upon accepting the Offer you will be required to pay a Bond, complete and submit your child’s Enrolment form online to confirm your child’s spot.

Looking for a Casual day! Once your child is enrolled at our service, you can book in casual days via the My Family Lounge App or website. To download the App visit Google Play or App Store.

Easy as 1…2…3

Visit myfamilylounge.com.au to see how this amazing parent portal will benefit you and step by step videos on how to use it.